This post marks tmoving this blog to Hugo , the static site generator written in GO. Yes I’m still a fan of static sites, this blog had been using a static site generator since 2015 Pelican Why a static site generator? Static sites of this type have a number of advantages over more conventional CMS systems. Unhackable. Forget wordpress security updates and mysql injections. The only way someone is modifying your site is if they have your upload credentials. Read more

Some of you may know I’ve started a new job recently, as a Senior Infrastructure Developer. The word developer there means I have to come to grips with source control in general and git in particular. I wanted to make a few notes on this here. What is git? Git is a distributed code management system, at times you “commit” your files into the repository where it is forever remembered. Read more

A great feature in Perl is Backticks. Copied from the shell, and built right into the base language, this allows you to capture the output of any shell command. But something that seems so simple in Perl, has always given me problems in Python. It’s not built in, and using the full “open” semantics seems to take far too much time and effort. To the rescue, from the Python standard library, we have the subprocess module. Read more

This post marks the return of this blog to Pelican , the static site generator written in Python. Why a static site generator? Static sites of this type have a number of advantages over more conventional CMS systems. Unhackable. Forget wordpress security updates and mysql injections. The only way someone is modifying your site is if they have your upload credentials. Fast. Once generated, there’s no work done on the web server side. Read more